“Harlem Pride, Inc. is honoring history with a new photo that recreates an iconic moment in LGBTQ, NYC, and American history: the April 21,1966 ‘Sip-In’ at Julius’ bar, in Greenwich Village.

“The original image by Village Voice photographer Fred W. McDarrah captures the moment that four gay activists with the Mattachine Society, one of the country’s earliest gay rights organizations, approached the bar at Julius’ (159 West 10th Street), identified that they were homosexuals, and ordered drinks — fully aware that to do so was in direct conflict with the NY State Liquor Authority’s discriminatory policy of revoking the licenses of bars that served known or suspected gay men and lesbians. The bartender placed his hand over a glass set in front of key organizer Dick Leitsch, the camera shutter clicked, and history was made by capturing LGBTQ discrimination in real time.”

Read the full article, here.

Photo: Harlem Pride, Inc.

“While Stonewall is widely considered the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement in the U.S., a lesser-known protest inside a Greenwich Village bar three years earlier helped lay critical groundwork for what would follow … Today, historians and advocates increasingly recognize the ‘sip-in’ as a key pre-Stonewall milestone. According to the New York City LGBTQ Historic Sites Project, the protest not only increased visibility of the early LGBTQ rights movement but also exposed widespread surveillance and entrapment tactics used against the community.

“Marking the 60th anniversary of the event, commemorations have taken place in New York and across the country.”

Read the full article, here.

Photo: Washington Blade photo by Ernesto Valle.

“The Stonewall National Monument … [is] among 11 sites on this year’s annual list of the most endangered historic places in the United States compiled by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

“The 2026 list, announced Wednesday, marks America’s 250th anniversary with the foundational principle that everyone is created equal as the theme, said Carol Quillen, president and CEO of the nonprofit organization. The 11 sites offer examples of how, over time, Americans have fought against injustice and for equality, she said.

“‘We wanted to think about those ideas, especially this notion that all human beings are created equal and find places, sometimes unsung places … that not all Americans routinely think about,’ Quillen told The Associated Press.”

Read the full article, here.

Photo: FILE — A rainbow flag is no longer flying on the pole, center, in the Stonewall National Monument, adjacent to the Stonewall Inn, background center, in New York, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

The Art Newspaper covers the announcement of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s “11 Most Endangered historic Places,” which includes Stonewall National Monument.

Read the full article, here.

“Even with its Pride flag restored, New York City’s iconic Stonewall National Monument has been put on an endangered list of historic national places.

“Not even its designation as the first U.S. national monument — and the only unit of the National Park Service — dedicated to LGBTQ history is enough to spare it from the list, dubbed the ’11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2026.'”

Read the full article, here.

Photo: Conjoined flags, an American flag and a Pride flag, fly together at the Stonewall National Monument on Feb. 11, 2026, in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. (Barry Williams / New York Daily News)

“The 11 sites [include] the Stonewall National Monument – which is the country’s first LGBTQ National Monument – in New York City …”

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Photo: New York City officials reinstall a Pride flag at Stonewall National Monument following its removal by the US National Parks Service. Photo: Timothy A. Clary / AFP via Getty Images.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has released its annual list of the most endangered historic places in the United States.

Read the full article, here.

Photo: People attend a ceremony where New York City officials re-raised the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village. Source: AFP/Getty, via The Independent.

The Manhattan site’s inclusion on the annual preservation list comes amid Trump’s increasing efforts to control the narrative surrounding LGBTQ+ history.

Photo: At the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan, the Trans Pride flag is seen on the “Gay Liberation” sculpture by George Segal. (photo Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic)

“A cheer rang out in Julius’ Bar on the evening of Tuesday, April 21, as New York City’s oldest continuously-operating gay bar commemorated the 60th anniversary of what is considered one of, if not the first, documented acts of civil disobedience in the modern movement for LGBTQ rights.

“On the same night in 1966 — three years before the Stonewall riots — a group of gay men belonging to the Mattachine Society set out to challenge homophobic laws that prohibited establishments from serving queer customers, who the State Liquor Authority deemed “disorderly.'”

Read the full article, here.

Photo: Donna Aceto for Gay City News.

Cross-publication of original reporting by The Forward, available here.

Read the article on Haaretz.com.

Photos: Exterior of the site of Eve Adams’ former tearoom, 129 MacDougal Street, in (l) 1939 and (r) 2016.

From the article: “Over the years, [Eve] Adams has come to be recognized as a Jewish LGBTQ icon. Her life inspired the play ‘The Great Lesbian Love of Eve Adams,’ and she was the subject of a ‘New York Times’ obituary published as part of the newspaper’s ‘Overlooked’ series, which chronicles the lives of notable people throughout history whose deaths went unreported.

“[Manhattan Borough President Brad] Hoylman-Sigal said he was inspired to commemorate Adams by the NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project, a nonprofit that documents local queer history, which asked him to send the letter to [NYC Mayor] Mamdani. The Sites Project also offers historic walking tours of the city featuring Adams’ story.

“‘Their jaws drop when we tell them these stories, standing in front of the building where her tea room was,’ said Ken Lustbader, co-founder of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project.”

Read more, here.

Photo: Eve Adams in Paris. Courtesy of Chicago Review Press.

Co-director Ken Lustbader was invited to share the life and legacy of Eve Adams with FOX5 NY.

Watch the feature, below and here.

“‘Pride 2026: For All of Us,’ WABC-TV’s annual Pride special, features a variety of stories about New York City’s LGBTQ community and beyond … [such as] a profile about a unique walking tour of historic LGBTQ sites in the West Village and a look inside The Lesbian Herstory Archives, which is home to the world’s largest collection of materials by and about lesbians and their communities.”

Watch the Project’s feature on Instagram, below. Watch the full program here.

 

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“The NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project held multiple events focusing on lesbian history on June 16 and 17, including a special tribute to the late Polish-Jewish immigrant Eve Adams, who owned a gay and lesbian tearoom hangout in the 1920s but was entrapped and arrested by New York City police, deported, and sent to her death at Auschwitz-Birkenau.”

Read the full article.

Photo by Donna Aceto.